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ISRAEL / Festival of French Film

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From March 13th until April 7th Israel is hosting the 15th French Film Festival to showcase recent films and classics of French cinema. Organised by the Institut français in Israel and the Eden Cinema, the festival offers a varied programme, showing the diversity and richness of French cinema. This year’s guests of honour are director …

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ISRAEL / Israeli television to broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Arabic and for free

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According to the Arabic Facebook page of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation will transmit the soccer World Cup for free in Arabic. In 2010, Israel tried unsuccessfully to buy the rights. This year it managed to obtain them – for €6.3 million. The matches will be shown on the …

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ISRAEL / The government discusses the possibility of closing public television

Five months after reopening the Israeli public broadcasting service, currently known as Kan, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has said he wants to dismantle it once and for all. The Israeli press reported the content of a discussion between Netanyahu and his ministers at a coalition party meeting on October 15th. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri apparently …

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ISRAEL / Candidate call for the 2017/18 Greenhouse programme

The Greenhouse Film Centre has opened a candidate-call for the next session of its programme for documentary film-makers from North Africa and the Middle East. Every year a dozen candidates participate in a three-part workshop as part of the Greenhouse programme. They refine their documentary projects and pitch them before a panel of international buyers, …

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ISRAEL / i24News authorised to broadcast in Israel

On May 29th the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) approved a bill authorizing Patrick Drahi’s news channel to broadcast in Israel. More specifically, an amendment has been made to existing broadcasting laws relating to international television channels working in Israel. Until now the law has imposed restrictions on international news channels such as i24News transmitting from Israel. …

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FRANCE / 11 projects chosen for FIDLab 2017

11 film projects representing 12 different countries have been chosen to participate in the 2017 FIDLab, the international co-production platform set up as part of FID (Festival international de cinéma de Marseille). More than half the projects selected are from the Mediterranean: “The Portuguese” (Portugal) a drama in development by Rita Azevedo Gomes, produced by …

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ISRAEL / Public television sheds one skin

  Scheduled a long time ago, the closure of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Israel’s public broadcaster, finally took effect on May 10th. It has been replaced by a new broadcasting organisation. IBA staff and journalists were warned only at the last minute that programmes would go off-air. On Tuesday evening, Geoula Even, the presenter …

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